Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-20
The president is


well satisfied with the ore that is turned out
| into effect.
The rock heading is putting out the best
ore that was ever run down the hill. Pretty
much all star.
Billy Amelung deserves considerable credit
for his new improved steam syphon, which
is doing its WORK satisfactorily.
The new pocket up in the ca is another
Improvement that is a decided success.
MIR. Ed. CRANE, the Ore and Steel Com
pany's gentlemanly surveyor, is making a
new survey and map of the inside working
of the Ore and Steel mines at this place.
Owing to the Mississippi river being frozen
over and no way to get railroad cars over the
river at st. Louis, without crossing the
bridge, which would cost over the profit on
the ore, we were short Of flats last Thursday
Our new supply store keeper, Mr.. Sam
Caruthers, of Fredericktown, is getting along
as well as if he had always filed that same
position. Sam, it beats pushing cars, don't
it? Jim has missed the dude.
The miners at No. tunnel hate to see
thaw come, as it makes that portion of the
mine kind of uncomfortable, and almost u
shower bath.
There is a gang of men stripping large
body of ore on the east side of the Knob and
shipping it down through Ga.
Miss Dewire and O'Neal, two young ladies
of the Knob, were sitting In the waiting-room
at the Pilot Knob depot, waiting for some
young lady friends to come on the Accom-
dation, last THU sday evening, when some
dirty, mean, unprotected dog (you could not
call bin a many threw a rock through the
window, striking Miss O'Neal on the head,
severely bruising and cutting the same.
I had no ,dea there would ever Oe anything
said about that little hugaing affair on the
bridge, but as am about 10 get myself in
trouble with not only one but four differen mt
parties, will here state that it was merely
fiction to fill up my rather scant column Of
Sd. fittings"
The Pilot Knob Furnace Company started
the tires last Monday morning. This will
give the Knob some mere life.
A new. battery of improved boile,s came
last week and are rapidly being put in posi-
ton.
Tunnel No. is being pushed ahead again,
As they have overcome the obstacle, and will
get through shortly, il they don't strike any
more such ground.
There are more machine contracts in the
Simpson shaft this month than ever before !;
so says Foreman Willoughby.
Capt. Searle instl ucted his watchmen and
forenen not to admit any strangers, who
were not employed by the Company, into
the mines, without permit from one of the
officials. This has long been standing or
der and it was supposed that everybody
knew it, as it has been posted at every en-
trance on printed cards, signed by Manager
Simpson.
The incline running southwest in the shaft
has struck very large body of the finest ore
on Pilot Knob.
1t is predicted by some of the old miners
here that Pilot Knob is nearing the outcrop
of larger output of ore than good many
think for. 1t truly begins to look so, for the
farth ,r they come down on the south and
west side of the mountain, the larger the
vein and the better the ore.
Timber Foreman Hornbeck's house, in
Arcadia,was entered last Sunday by tramp,
but Frank came in lime to nail Mr.. Tramp
and save.a good many articles of clothing and
silverware. Judge Dinger sent the tramp to
Jail until the Grand Jury meets.